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Cal-State Fullerton is the first team to lose the dream.  Their Road to Omaha ended Monday afternoon.  And I for one and sad to see them go.

I was hoping for a long run because of their mustaches.  Yes -- their mustaches.

They grew them in the spring for team unity.  They went 15-2 in March.  Some of the mustaches came off and the team played 10-7 ball in April.  The mustaches came back.  In Omaha, the mustaches didn't seem to conjure up the same magic as during the season.

I loved the mustaches for two reasons -- I can't grow one so I'm jealous.  And it made me wonder how many people turned on a game and when they saw the close-up of a Titans player -- thought they were watching ESPN Classic and a game from the 70's.  The mustaches could have fit into that era.  No one I saw had the goatees that we're so used to seeing today.

It also reminded me of a local fundraiser a couple weeks ago.  $20,000 was raised for Camp CoHoLo -- Children's Cancer Camps of Nebraska through the Mustaches for Kids Omaha Chapter.

31 men grew mustaches for the event.  They're lucky Cal-State Fullerton didn't get here.  The players may have won all of the awards!

Brian